Monty Python and the Holy Grail Overview
A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen.
Rating
PG
Audio and movie formats
Mono
Official movie site
http://www.pythonline.com
Production company
Michael White Productions, Python (Monty) Pictures Limited, National Film Trustee Company
Monty Python and the Holy Grail cast and crew
- Graham Chapman as King Arthur/Voice of God/Middle Head/Hiccoughing Guard
- John Cleese as Second Soldier with an Interest in Birds/Large Man with Dead Body/Black Knight/Mr Newt/An Extraordinarily Rude Frenchman/Tim the Wizard/Sir Launcelot
- Terry Gilliam as Patsy (Arthur's Trusty Steed)/Green Knight/Soothsayer/Bridgekeeper/Sir Gawain (The First to be Killed by the Rabbit)/Animator
- Eric Idle as Dead Collector/Mr Blint/Sir Robin/The Guard Who Doesn't Hiccough but Tries to Get Things Straight/Concorde/Roger the Shrubber/Brother Maynard
- Neil Innes as The First Self-Destructive Monk/Robin's Least Favourite Minstrel/The Page Crushed by a Rabbit/The Owner of a Duck
- Terry Jones as Dennis's Mother/Sir Bedevere/Left Head/Voice of Cartoon Scribe/Prince Herbert
- Michael Palin as 1st Soldier with an Interest in Birds/Dennis/Mr Duck/Right Head/Sir Galahad/Leader of Knights/Narrator/King of Swamp Castle/Brother Maynard's Roommate
- Connie Booth as The Witch
- Carol Cleveland as Zoot and Dingo
- Bee Duffell as Old Crone to Whom King Arthur Said "Ni!"
- John Young as The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't/The Historian Who Isn't A.J.P. Taylor At All
- Rita Davies as The Historian Who Isn't A.J.P. Taylor (Honestly)'s Wife
- Sally Kinghorn as Either Winston or Piglet
